Fuck it all, fuck this world, fuck everything that you stand for” spat Slipknot in 1999 on ‘Surfacing’, helping them become an international phenomenon in the process. Nearly a decade on they’re one of the most recognisable bands on the...

"This is the year when hope fails you, when the test subjects run the experiment and the bastard you know is the hero you hate" , barks Slipknot ’s sergeant major singer Corey Taylor as if addressing an imaginary army of fans on the anthemic...

As the recent Viz comic strip Slipknot And The Doorway In Time attested, Corey and the boys are ripe for a spot of mockery. Before spinning ‘My Plague’, though, Geordie cartoonists should brace themselves for some harsh words. " I don’t mind...

Slipknot ’s mere presence incites havoc at record store signings. Their records go in at number one. They sell out arena tours, and provoke outrage among politicians and parents’ associations. Basically, these nine masked men are bona fide...

Somewhere over the railroad, dead crows lie. There's a land that you've dreamed of, once in a mad clown's eye. While Eminem scrapes the grim flipside of the American Dream and Limp Bizkit grope the plump psyche of the American Teen, Slipknot...

In the middle of the sun-blasted Milton Keynes plain, just south of the Village of the Damned, an Iron Maiden-shirted townie stands and stares . "Fackin' hell," he splutters, as a shaven-headed child, smeared in charcoal battle-paint, a...

Slipknot
Spit It Out (Roadrunner)
The Slipknot conundrum. On the one hand, you want to congratulate them
for reintroducing the notion of 'spectacle' to rock'n'roll. For being lairy,
scary and controversial. For having a few...

It's like survivalist training for metal fans. Nestled in the desert-like town of San Bernardino , Tattoo the Earth , on its second to last date, is sporting triple digit (Fahrenheit) heat, spiralling moshpits, an endless supply of bloody noses,...

It's not exactly the heartland. We are 1,000 miles away from the parched, mall strewn suburban beauty that spawned both Slipknot and the kids who worship them. The Bay Area may be the home of Metallica and Machine Head , but this is not 'Knot...

It's like a youth club disco set in hell. Fourteen-year-old kids are dressed in Slipknot boiler suits, homemade Slipknot masks and Slipknot combat pants, and are currently ready to explode. Slipknot 's nine masked marauders arrive onstage...